Corsned

[from Sax. cors, a curse, and sned, a cake or piece of bread.] In Saxon law. The morsel of execration; (panis conjuratus; offa execrata.) A species of ordeal in use among the Saxons, performed by eating a piece of bread over which the priest had pronounced a certain imprecation. If the accused ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt.

Crabb's Hist. Eng. Law, 30. 1 Reeves' Hist. 21. 4 Bl. Com. 346. Spelman.